Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

29 mistakes - chronological order

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Visible crew/equipment: After Julie is killed, she falls to the floor, and if you look closely you can see the big black mattress she lands on. (Seen on DVD version.) (01:18:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Freddy cuts through the sheet before entering reality you see him making a large cut in the sheet. On the next shot, the sheet is only cut in face level. (01:23:50)

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Continuity mistake: Heather follows the sleeping pills (bread crumbs) into Dylan's room. She has the pills in her right hand and the kitchen knife in the left. She picks up two pills then reaches for the one on the pillow. She reaches for it with her index finger and thumb her hand closed but when they show the close up on her hand she picks it up with her middle finger and thumb with her hand open. (01:27:20)

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the film Nancy takes a big kitchen knife to fight Freddy with. When she is falling into Freddy's lair from her son's bed, she clearly has nothing in her hands. However, as she emerges from the water she has fallen in, the knife appears in her left hand. (01:29:10)

Continuity mistake: When Freddy is reaching for Dylan inside the fireplace, his left hand changes position on the bars. (01:34:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Nancy is covered with Freddy's tongue, the tongue goes under her shirt. When it cuts, the tongue no longer is under the shirt. (01:36:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Dylan and Heather are looking at the manuscript you see them looking at the first page. In the next shot she flips back to the first page again. (01:38:50)

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Continuity mistake: Julie punches a nurse and she passes out on the floor. She closes the door and locks it. Next scene shows the same nurse outside the door trying to get in.

Visible crew/equipment: In the playground scene, when Dylan jumps from the top of the rocket, it's an adult stunt double.

Robert Englund: I think they'd like to see us together again.
Heather Lagenkamp: In what? A romantic-comedy?
Robert Englund: Just because it's a love story doesn't mean it can't have a decapitation or two.

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Trivia: Wes Craven wanted to bring Johnny Depp in for a cameo as himself, as Depp had co-starred in the original "Nightmare on Elm Street", and this film featured cameos by various alum of the franchise. However, Craven decided not to ask, believing that Johnny Depp would not be interested in being in another Elm Street movie. Johnny Depp later stated that if Wes Craven had asked him he would have said yes.

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Question: It is said that in the original script, Julie the babysitter was meant to be Freddy's pawn, and even though they removed that part, there are still elements in the film that point fingers at her. What are some of these elements?

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Chosen answer: Mostly just very subtle hints. In the beginning when she arrives right around the same time that Heather gets a call from the psycho-stalker, suggesting a possible connection. And the fact she's alone with Dylan many times during the film, as she could be subtly manipulating him to act out.

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